Neither a fake documentary nor a real fiction, Alien American is the portrait of Basia, a Polish-American woman living in Los Angeles, claiming to be an alien in a previous life. Her testimony plunges us into a world both enchanting and disturbing, the American collective imaginary.

“[…] All of these narratives both factual and counterfactual, hover together in an ephemeral cloud that refuses the hierarchy of fact over fiction and, more usefully, shows that this phantasmagoria constitutes American ideology. […] Mercuri likes to assert that the video is neither a "fake documentary nor a real fiction" which neatly summarizes the project's unsettling view of the dichotomy between the real world and its multiple representations.” — review by Holly Willis, LA Weekly.